Writing Resistance, Writing the Self: Literary Reconstruction in United States Prison Witness

Based in a digital archive of first-person witness by people currently incarcerated in the United States (U.S.), this paper discusses witness texts that document and grieve the experience of alienation of self-identity, fight that alienation, and that together map both the degradation of human digni...

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Main Author: Doran Larson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2019-12-01
Series:Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/9840